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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not a DCI booster, nowhere even close to it, but I have to very simply say "this is unavoidable". When I had an 3rd-5th grader, I would have sided with the "Ughs" on this thread. Now that I have a middle schooler, I've come to realize that there is no way around this. It's not shortsighted, we parents are. Better a school can embrace it and manage it. While this isn't going to be a panacea (just unavoidable), vilifying technology in the classroom flies in the face of teaching towards professional and college success, which is where I stand and am seeing the tides turn much faster than schools are keeping up.[/quote]

Disagree disagree. I have high schooler and middle schooler. Overuse of technology in the classroom ( and at home ) is not UNavoidable.[/quote]

Indeed.  a colleague of mine has a 17 year with a flip phone. She has all kinds of draconian screen time rules. Kis have been and are at a mix of public and private,. She says people are constantly amazed at how articulate her children are, amazed that they can hold conversations with adults.  It's because they have a lot of practice, h aha!   Her oldest just graduated from a SLAC, so the no tech rule hasn't marred his future,  ha ha.

My kids will be able find friends with similar no/low tech in middle school and high school, so they won't be the total odd man out.  There is a growing number of us out here (hence this thread)

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